AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals Training in Australia

  • Learn via: Classroom
  • Duration: 2 Days
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Price: From €2,775+VAT
We can host this training at your preferred location. Contact us!

Gain the foundational knowledge that you need to manage, optimize and plan your cloud spend, and influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost-conscious from an expert AWS instructor. In this 2-day, classroom training course you will learn to innovate within your finance organization.

In this course, you will learn how finance professionals can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to adopt cloud in a fiscally responsible manner. You will gain foundational knowledge to help you manage, optimize, and plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organization.

Who should take this course

  • Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:
  • Maximize cloud business value
  • Use CFM best practices
  • Help finance teams innovate with AWS

  • Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
  • We recommend that attendees of this course have taken AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials and AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders.

  • Define cloud business value
  • Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
  • Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend
  • Optimize cloud spending and usage through pricing models
  • Establish best practices with Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Cloud Financial Operations (Cloud FinOps)
  • Implement financial governance and controls
  • Drive finance organization innovation

Activities

This course includes presentations, activities, demonstrations, videos, assessments, and group exercises

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction

  • Cloud spending decisions
  • AWS pricing
  • Cost drivers
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • AWS Cloud Value Framework
  • Activity 1.1: Cloud value metrics
  • Cloud Financial Management
  • Activity 1.2: Cloud Financial Management outcomes

Module 2: Planning and Forecasting

  • Estimate cloud workload costs
  • Activity 2.1: Build and refine a cost estimate
  • Budget and forecast cloud costs
  • Improve cloud financial predictability

Module 3: Measurement and Accountability

  • KPIs and unit metrics
  • Cost visibility and monitoring
  • Demonstration 3.1: Tools for cost visibility, tools for cost monitoring
  • Cost allocation and accountability
  • Cost allocation building blocks

Day 2

Module 4: Cost Optimization

  • Usage optimizations
  • Commitment-based purchase options
  • Activity 4.1: Cost optimization

Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations

  • Organizational change for CFM
  • Organization models for CFM
  • Activity 5.1: Organizational models
  • Establish a cost-aware organizational culture
  • Governance, control, and agility
  • AWS governance and control building blocks
  • Automated-based governance using AWS services

Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation

  • Keys to financial innovation
  • Financial transformation
  • Activity 6.1: Solutions for financial innovation

Module 7: Resources and Next Steps

  • Module resources
  • Next steps



Contact us for more detail about our trainings and for all other enquiries!

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our Australia facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

05 January 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
08 January 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
05 January 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
08 January 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
10 February 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
10 February 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
10 April 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
25 April 2025 (2 Days)
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Classroom / Virtual Classroom
AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals Training Course in Australia

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